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Calgary, CP at odds over rail yard noise
The yard has been there over100 years, which means it was there when the people moved in. If they didn’t want the noise and vibration, they shouldn’t have moved there. You can’t move in beside a major industrial installation and then complain about living next to it.
this yard has been there for over a hundred years. Why build an upscale area near it then complain?
The railroad will leave town and take the jobs and money spent in town and the hippies can turn the land in to a non tax producing park. The RR should tell the town good by and let the town find out what a little noise is worth.
Its been there for a hundred years? Then people dont buy a house there simple
Over 4,000 lost jobs because some people don’t like the noise? I have an idea, move the locomotive facility to where I live, we can use the jobs!
Let me get this straight. The railroad has been here over 100 years. The railroad contributes much to the local economy in jobs & taxes. No body made the culture crowd to move in next door to the railroad. Trains, locomotive repairs & yard classifications = noise. Kind of a no brainer here!
Everybody put up with the noise for 100 years and now it’s a problem? People just need to put up with it or move. It’s as bad as city folks moving to the country and complaining about the smell from the farms. You moved there, the railroad didn’t, deal with it.
Hunter Harrison at his finest; cooperative, open, non-confrontational, and always eager to please. Let’s have more of this diplomatic leader in the industry.
Same problem different country. Here in Adelaide, Australia we have people who live in the Adelaide Hills complaining about rail noise despite the fact that the railway has been there for over 120 years.
the people that built their homes there didn’t notice a yard that has been there for 100yrs.??? They must have had their heads down a gopher hole. Do they ever stop to think that some of their belongings and food might have been brought by train.That cold prairie weather sure dulls the brain.pull your head out of the hole and give it a shake.
Yep, it seems they’re more at odds with the photo!!!
This is exactly like the idiots who move in next door to O’Hare Airport in Chicago, right under a flight path, and then complain about the noise. The railroad was there long before any of the new hippies and their new art. If they don’t like the noise, move.
Too bad all the existing UP Big Blows are internally dismantled. If one was still operational, I would recommend CP borrow one for a few months to do some yard switching with the turbine running. Nothing quite like the noise equivalent of a B52 moving slowly back and forth in your back yard. Then after a month, switch back to more conventional power. The complaints will cease.
OK, even though I’m a big supporter of arts and culture anywhere, I have to ask: how much does the activity in that neighborhood generate for the local economy relative to CP’s Alyth Yard’s contribution? It’s not a steel mill or a fertilizer plant in your back yard, folks.
OK the yard was there for a 100 years, however if Hunter just gave me a pink slip maybe there might be a little noise.
As a resident of this ‘town’, I feel I should give some background. The neighbourhood and the yard have coexisted for over 125 years, having been built together. The problem is that up until recently CP didn’t do extremely loud maintenance such as load testing except during the day. It’s not the same as moving in next to an airport, CP changed, not the neighbourhood.
Burlington,Vt has the same issue with noise coming from F16s.
The USAF wants F35s in Burlington, locals don’t want them, but they enjoy their freedom. I say,“push the ear plugs in deeper”. The cost of freedom and economy isn’t cheap!
As a former CP employee who calls Calgary home and used to call Aluth home, the yard has pretty well been desimated due to Hunters cuts. The hump is no longer in service, except for minimal usage from time to time and since Alyth has become a run through terminal and not an originating terminal, the amount of diesel servicing has dropped considerably.